It can be beautiful and historical and enjoyable as long as you dodge the rednecks (which means I can't introduce you to any of my kin folks)
My father who was not too keen on TM, was pretty typical of the blue collar folks my family was and with whom we associated - I once heard him say that the KKK was the "lesser of two evils" I remember telling him about the sidhis - he went nuts. At one point I was sitting beside him in his lazy boy recliner watching some war picture on cable tv and I said (remember that at that time I was a real TM zealot) "Daddy what if, what if you really went to a flying demonstration and saw someone actually flying around in the sky!? What would you think then?" He whipped his head around to look at me, snatched the unfiltered Chesterfield King out of his mouth and snarled "I'd know goddamn well that some son of a bitch was up there in the clouds in a helicopter with a wire attached to the bastard who claimed to be flying, that's what I would know!" It was so much fun. ________________________________ From: awoelflebater <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12-12-2012 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > Oh no no no no no no! If you have had sweet potato pie that is > indistinguishable from pumpkin pie, you have not had real sweet tater pie. I must admit I was imagining that sweet potato pie and pumpkin could be cousins but I have never had sweet potato pie, but I ADORE sweet potatoes (not yams). > > First, you have to use real sweet taters, NOT yams - one of the best to use > are white fleshed sweet taters like an O'Henry. > > Now a lot of the old homemakers used the 1950's type recipe with added sugar > and evaporated milk - but if you get good sweet taters you don't need added > sugar - just bake 'em, cool 'em, peel 'em and mash them add a little mile or > soy milk and if you need sweetener you can add some sugar or stevia, I liked > green stevia, but that give an unusual taste (I like it, a lot of people > don't) Oh you little home maker you, oh yeah, you are a professional BAKER, now I remember! I love you already. > > Pumpkin pie really depends on the spices - sweet tater pie is usually just > spiced with cinnamon and maybe a dab of nutmeg - if you add the other > traditional pumpkin pie spices it will wind up tasting like pumpkin pie. See, I knew they could resemble one another under the right circumstances. Kind of like tofu, it takes on whatever flavour you add to it. > > Its all kind of moot for me in the past 6 years or so since my body decided > to have type 2 diabetes, but I do have the memory. Big bummer, that. > > If you and your husband ever come to South Carolina I will be happy to make > you a real sweet tater pie. I will definitely take you up on that. We have been meaning to get down that way one of these days, beautiful and historical. > > By the way, you have in some of your kind comments about my writing, referred > to my experiences with TM - what were yours? I mean how long did you do TM > and what was your affiliation with the TMO, if you don't mind me asking? Very simply I was initiated in 1970 when I was 14 years old. My oldest sister was a teacher and she initiated the whole family. I meditated until I was about 29 years old at which time I pretty much stopped. I did attend MIU from 1976 until 1980 when I graduated. My oldest sister (the who initiated me) was a professor in the English dept. and my brother in law (Peter Erskine), married to my oldest sister, was dean of faculty and taught in the art dept. My middle sister was an initiator as well and was an art major and her boyfriend also taught at MIU, his name was Jim Weidle. He got a little bit famous for his watercolours later on. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: awoelflebater <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 12:30 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12-12-2012 > > >  > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > are mince pies actually good? I have never had one. Around here its unusual > > it even see pumpkin pie - its mostly sweet tater pie or pecan pie. > > Love that pecan pie, especially with a bit of chocolate on top. Sweet potato > pie might as well be pumpkin pie, they seem pretty similar to me. But mince > pie virtually always contains lard so it is out for me, unless you get the > vegetarian version. Then it is sweet as hell but I love the booziness of it. > http://www.joyofbaking.com/HomemadeMincemeat.html > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodlewix@> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 4:10 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 12-12-2012 > > > > > >  > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberation@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Does anyone out there ever wonder if perhaps we're being > > > > just a little bit narcissistic when we assume that these > > > > times are so much more important than any other time? > > > > > > Not just a little. :-) > > > > > > Back during the millennial new year of 1999-2000, several > > > news outlets did articles on "apocalyptic predictions." > > > They demonstrated very conclusively that *there has never > > > been a time in human history* when such predictions were > > > not being made, and in which the end of the world was > > > imminent, about to happen Any Day Now. > > > > > > They concluded that self-importance and narcissism were > > > hard-wired into the human system, and that no matter what > > > the era, no matter what the culture or religion, there > > > would *always* be predictions of the "end of the world" > > > happening any minute, *because some people need that kind > > > of delusional self-importance to feel good about themselves*. > > > > I'm wondering how our ice age ancestors saw things like this, > > they must have had such a precarious life that the apocalypse > > seemed near constantly. You'd probably need a bit of self-importance > > to get through the day. > > > > Funny how we still see everything through this Christian prism, > > without writing, how long would these myths last? Long forgotten > > by now I should think,or Chinese whispered out of all recognition. > > Actually that probably happened anyway given the several hundred > > years before the gospels were written. What strange creatures we > > are to keep such faith in unlikely and unreliable stories from so > > long ago. > > > > As a percentage of human history, the last 2000 years don't account > > for much, how many saviours have there been that we completely forgot > > about? That's a big problem for the biblical world view because it > > assumes the old testament was right and we were just a few generations > > from creation. Bit of an oversight not to take that into consideration > > now. The idea that God would wait that long before sending a saviour > > when we've spent millenia struggling out of Africa and round the globe > > seems unlikely to me, but none of the prophets mention any prior > > intervention. > > > > As highly unusual as the whole Christian mythos is, none of it stops me > > enjoying Christmas, oh no. I'm on my third box of mince pies since advent > > began. > > >
